Jeremy Hobson: Now to a new report about a looming problem that bankruptcy lawyers say could end up being as big as the mortgage crisis. The $1 trillion student loan "debt bomb."

From the Marketplace Education Desk at WYPR in Baltimore, Amy Scott reports.

Amy Scott: You’ve probably heard that student loans surpassed credit card debt for the first time not long ago. But unlike credit card debt, it’s next impossible to escape student debt by filing for bankruptcy.

William Brewer is president of the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys.

William Brewer: Those student loans literally becomes a ball and chain that the person drags to their grave.

His group wants to change that, and as bankruptcy attorneys, they’d get more business. But consumer advocates agree.